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Show Trolley Company Hopes to Minimize Dmcr cf Hill . . at First anivStatc by Kcw Sctemc- ' k . . , , '.JZX-i, Consolidated Railway". & Power ' cofrrjny, has completed Its plans for ' the relief of the patrons of the car lines i on First and Sixth streets. , . . At. present the cars passing, through Eagle gate in either direction number twenty-nine every hour.'. This heavy traffic frequently results In coiftuslon, on account of the necessity of waiting on sidings for other cars to pass. L ' The 'cars running on First street, down the 8 per cent grade to the Eagle gate, are often, particularly when the rails . are slippery, a menace to the crews and the passengers. If a car were to run awav coming down that thoroughfares of that city, there are four curves. These curves cut oft the corners of the sidewalks for a distance of two feet at each corner, yet no one thinks it necessary to enter a protest. "The people here are. so accustomed to the "broad 'streets that what would be considered in the cities of the East as wide highways, are looked upon here as distinctively, narrow. "If this company can get permission to put 1 1 the proposed double tracks, we will give a service there that cannot can-not be excelled, either in efficiency or In point of safety." The work of remodeling the line will commence as soon as the injunction 1 removed. . ' grrade, - and another car w ere . coming 1 up on the Interlaced track, a collision would almost Inevitably occur and. a probable loss of life would result. -A- few months ago one of the cars be came unmanageable and started down tae grade at a terriflc speed. Rnother car had Just turned up the hill, .nd' the motor man. seeing his danger, dan-ger, -reversed and went back down the hill with full power. on. . The runaway car came on unchecked, and as the A other,..whlrled around the curve it was derailed and ran far off the track, thus leaving a clear field for the runaway. -The wild car dashed past the ditched car, missing the vestibule by not more than a foot. It to overcome -the ""possibility of uch occurrences as this that the com-pany com-pany is making an effort to have the injunction against a double track on Firsr street annulled. The efforts of the! company are being ably seconded by the residents along the llnei If the company can obtain permission to lay a double track, other changes will be made at once. Cars coming down the hill would then go. direct to Main street . from First street, and would not pass under Eagle gate., , The cars would then go down NortH Temple street to Main: they would go east to State and through the Eagle gate on the outward trip. , "The contention that the double track would reduce the width of First street Is not a tenable one," said Superintendent Superintend-ent Arnold today. . "The street would be made a little leas than three feet narrower, wnd would then be amply wide for all the traffic that would, ever go over First street. - -In' Denver, at the corner of Fifteenth and Larimer, streets, one of the busiest |